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iTunes saving the same artist in 2 different ways alphabetically

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west.kun

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Sep 9, 2009
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This is making me nuts! Here's my issue: I recently added an album by "A Fine Frenzy" into my iTunes library. It automatically saved the first 4 tracks under "A" for A fine frenzy. The remainder of the album is saved under "F" for a Fine Frenzy. All previous tracks by this artist have fallen into "F", so why did 4 of these tracks fall into "A"??? All info is the same, all the same spelling, etc. What's going on?!?!:eek:
 
west.kun said:
This is making me nuts! Here's my issue: I recently added an album by "A Fine Frenzy" into my iTunes library. It automatically saved the first 4 tracks under "A" for A fine frenzy. The remainder of the album is saved under "F" for a Fine Frenzy. All previous tracks by this artist have fallen into "F", so why did 4 of these tracks fall into "A"??? All info is the same, all the same spelling, etc. What's going on?!?!:eek:
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I’d say check the tags for things like Sort Artist, Album Artist, and Sort Album Artist
 
tried

Yea I've tried that, unfortunately. I've right clicked and checked/compared all the track info...it all seems to be consistent.
 
Hm. I had an issue once where some tracks were imported with different capitalization than the rest that I had, and for some reason that was sorting differently, even after I changed it. What I found fixed it was selecting everything by that artist and changing the artist to something random, then hitting ok so it actually changed. Then I changed it back to what it was actually supposed to be, and it all sorted together. You could try that.
 
nope

thanks for the suggestion, which I have now tried and it didn't fix it! Any other suggestions out there?? :confused:
 
got it!

Ok, perfect! So I found that under the sorting name it wasn't consistent. Thanks for the help!:D
 
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